Fedora 9 - changing screen resolution with sys-config-display (or not)
by John Whitley
Having fresh installed Fedora 9, I am struggling with changing both the
Monitor type and the screen resolution.
System->Administration->Display->Hardware allowed ne to change the
Monitor type to Generic LCD 1280x1024
Further attempts do not update /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Setting the monitor to 1280x1024 gave me a screen resolution of 1024x768
Attempting to change this by either
System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution or
System->Administration->Display->Settings, I was only offered either the
same or lower resolutions.
Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a higher resolution solved the problem.
In each case I was careful to make the change and then re-login.
Looking at Redhat Bugzilla, it appears there have been problems with
sys-config-display since Fedora 7 although I did not suffer with this on
numerous Fedora 8 boxes I setup.
Is this a common problem? How do others change screen resolution?
I would be grateful for advice
Regards
John Whitley
16 years, 1 month
Yeah, I have desktop effects:
by Petrus de Calguarium
I hope someone in the know answers your question. I would like to add some, on
topic:
Having chosen OpenGL, should one choose:
1. Texture from Pixmap, Shared Memory or Fallback?
2. Nearest, Bilinear or Trilinear?
3. Direct Rendering?
4. VSync?
So, as to my experiences regarding your question...
I use Intel graphics. In Fedora 9 alpha, it was not possible to use OpenGL,
only XRender, which supports less effects and is slower, I thought. Since
Fedora 9 beta and the actual Fedora 9 release, it is possible to use OpenGL,
which I now use without any apparent problem. I have set options: Texture
from Pixmap, Bilinear, Direct Rendering and VSync, but haven't a clue which
are best, but I assumed that turning them all on would give me the fullest
user experience. It would be nice to know which is the best choice. I am very
pleased with the effects and performance.
16 years, 1 month
Yeah, I have desktop effects:
by Neal Becker
I have desktop effects now with kde/nvidia with the new nvidia driver.
Now, 2 questions:
1. Should I choose compositing with opengl or xrender?
2. Fonts are significantly larger with the nvidia driver than with the open
nvidia version. I wonder why?
16 years, 1 month
F9 network configuration bug?
by David Mozurkewich
I just added a second computer behind my netgear WGR614v4 router. I
installed Fedora 9. My last install was FC5 so there is much in F9 that
is unfamiliar to me. To avoid introducing errors, I used all the
defaults during the installation except disk partitions. After the
reboot, ifconfig shows eth0 active with the correct IP address
$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7D:E9:09:8B
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:fee9:98b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:1356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:118973 (116.1 KiB) TX bytes:71977 (70.2 KiB)
Interrupt:16
lo ...
Also, the system->administration->network->DNS gui shows the correct
primary and secondary DNS addresses. Since this computer's IP address
and the DNS addresses are set by the router, I'm led to think that both
the hardware is working and the kernel recognizes it. In addition, I
can ping each computer from the other. The first ping takes 1 to 2
seconds followed by ~0.25 ms responses. Perhaps a bit slow, but not
significant for most of what I need to do.
So what can go wrong? If I ssh or scp between the computers, I get the
immediate, expected complaint about the authenticity of the RSA key. I
say it is okay, then after no response for about 90 seconds, I get a
password prompt and a fast connection thereafter. I did a large file
transfer at 10 MB/sec. For these commands (ping, ssh, scp) I referred
to the other computer by its IP address on the local network, not by its
name.
If the slow start-up were the only problem, I could probably get by but
I cannot connect from the new computer to either the router's setup page
on my local network or to *any* address in the outside world (either by
name or IP address). Ping just gives no response while Firefox
eventually says "Address not found".
To me, this has the feel of a configuration problem, presumably with
networkManager but beyond that, I'm baffled. My apparently flawed
reasoning tells me that by successfully initializing the connection
(getting the IP and DNS addresses from the router), networkManager
demonstrates it knows how to talk to the hardware yet it fails to do so
when the connection is actually needed.
The networkManager home page, (www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/)
claims the configuration is automated and gives no debugging hints. I
tried going through the menus in both KDE and gnome as well as the files
in etc/sysconfig but this approach seems futile without good
documentation for what each of these does, which are associated with the
NetworkManager service and which are just for the network service.
Also, there are no obvious hints in the system log.
My system is a 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 2.4 GHz with 4 GB
ram and a Gigabyte S-series motherboard with built-in ethernet
(identified as Realtek RTL8111/8168B). I get the same behavior using
the KDE live CD or either the i386 or x86-64 install.
I am probably making a simple mistake but cannot see it. Any
help/suggestions would be appreciated,
Dave
16 years, 1 month
build initrd for qla2xxx firmware
by Mark Haney
Okay, I'm still unable to build a correct initrd to include the QLogic
2300 FC card I have in a couple of machines. I've tried several methods
(from scripts to cracking open the existing initrd) and nothing seems to
work. The firmware IS on the system (via an RPM) and the qla2xxx module
gets loaded, but I cannot get it to load on boot. initrd complains
about the firmware not being available.
Surely others out there have these cards in use still and keep there
systems up to date, so what am I doing wrong? Can someone walk me
through this. I have one system stuck at FC6 because the newer kernel
don't include the firmware and I can't upgrade until I can get this
resolved.
HELP!
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16 years, 1 month
Firefox plugins
by Antonio M
Suddenly when I digit about:plugins I find that no plugins are
installed!!! where have they gone???
Running firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386
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Skype : antoniomontag
16 years, 1 month
RE: repository for thunderbird [solved] + structuring boxes
by Dan Thurman
g wrote:
| Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
| > limited to "Inbox", "Trash" and "Junk". I have
| > hundreds of folders under my inbox as well as
|
| dan,
| this is not in thinking you do not know. only for those who may not.
| ___________
|
[snip!]
I think the "box" (folders/directory) layouts are
arbitrary, you can setup your structures as you desire.
I have "boxes" both under "Inbox" and outside of "Inbox".
I could have easily moved all by "Inbox" sub-boxes outside
of "Inbox" if I wanted to.
The problem I ran into was that someone recommended
that I place an entry such as "\Global Address List"
in the "IMAP server directory" field and in that
case, a "top-level namespace" was created and it
automatically added sub-boxes under the "\Global
Address List", "Inbox", Trash", and "Junk". Clicking
on "Subscribe...", you may find that you cannot select
any existing "boxes" outside of your "IMAP server directory"
namespace, as I did.
My problem was solved by clearing the "IMAP server
directory" field and allowed me to "Subscribe..." to
all existing boxes in the global namespace.
FWIW,
Dan
16 years, 1 month
lastest kernel support fedora 9 DVD
by Randy Easley
Where can I download the latest kernel support dvd for Fedora 9?
I want to be able to install in graphical mode.
Also, I'm head to head with Fedora vs Centos
Which is supported better?
Which version will not break code and libraries, etc.
Which updates better?
Any comment are very welcome.
16 years, 1 month
Fc 7 installs- not Fc 8
by ramachandranc1＠aim.com
After formatting the HD, I tried to install Fc 8 by a DVD, but failed.I was able to do it with Fc 7 (a DVD).
Why it is so.
Ramachandran
16 years, 1 month
Xvfb and fontpath.d
by Ric Moore
When I try this, I get this:
Xvfb :2 -query iam
Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d, removing
from list!
/etc/X11/fontpath.d is an empty (0 length) file.
rpm -q --whatprovides fontpath.d comes up negative.
Anyone familiar with this?? Ric
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